Abstract: We analyzed the necessity and possibility of developing high mountain vegetable in Yuxi City according to the average monthly trading volume and price of the vegetable wholesale market at Jinshan—the unique fixed point of Ministry of Agriculture in the city, and the average monthly temperature, rainfall and sunlight time of typical towns in torrid zone of Central Asia and the south temperature zone. In this way, we pointed out that solving the problem of variety, harvest time and critical technique took priority to develop high mountain vegetable in Yuxi City